50 FUMITORY FAMILY. 



spoou-shaped tips, which enclose the anthers of the 6 stamens m 

 two sets, along with the stigma : the middle anther of each set is 

 2-celled, the lateral ones 1 -celled. Delicate or tender and very 

 smooth herbs, witli colorless and inert juice, and much dissected 

 or compound leaves. 



» Corolla heart-shaped or 2-spurred at base : pod several-seeded. 



1. DIOENTRA. Petals slightly cohering with each other. Seeds crested. 



2. ADLUMIA. Petals all permanently united into one slightly heart-shaped 



body, which encloses the small pod. Seeds crestless. Clinabing by the very 



coiripound leaves. 



* * Corolla with only one petal spurred at base. 

 8. CORYDALIS. Ovarv and pod slender, several-seeded. Seeds crested. 

 4. FUMAKIA. Ovary and small closed fruit globular, 1-seeded. 



1. DICENTRA (meaning two-spifrred in Greek). Commonly but wrongly 

 named Diclytka or Dielytra. IJ. Fl. in spring. 



* Wild species, low, with delicate decompound leaves and few-flowered scapes sent 

 up from the ground in early spring. 



D. Cueull&,ria, Ddtchman's Breeches. Common in leaf-mould in 

 woods N. Euliase and flowers from a sort of granular-scaly bulb ; corolla 

 white tipped with yellow, with the two diverging spurs at the base longer than 

 the pedicel. 



D. Canadensis, Canadian D. or Squirrel-Corn. With the last N. 

 Separate yellow grains, like Indian corn, in place of a scaly bulb ; the corolla 

 narrower and merely heart-shaped at base, white or delicately flesh-colored, 

 sweet-scented ; inner petals much crested at tip. 



D. eximia is rarer, wild a long the Alleghanies, occasionally cult., has 

 coarser foliage, and more numerous flowers than the last, pink-purple, and pro- 

 duced throughout the summer, from tufted scaly rootstocks. 



* * Cultivated exotic, taller and coarser, leafi/stemme^, many-flowered. 



D. speetebilis, Showy D. or Bleeding Heart. From N. China, 

 very ornamental through spring and early summer, with ample Peony-like 

 leaves, and long drooping racemes of bright pink-red heartshaped flowers 

 (1' long) : the two small sepals fall off in the bud. 



2. ADLUMIA, CLIMBING FUMITORY. (Named in honor of a Mr. 

 Adlum.) @ The only species is 



A. Cirrhdsa. Wild in low shady grounds from New York W. & S. and 

 cult. ; climbing over bushes or low trees, by means of its 2 - 3-pinnately com- 

 pound delicate leaves, the stalks of the leaflets jjcting like tendrils ; flowers flesh- 

 colored, pauiclel, all summer. 



3. CORYDALIS. (Greek name for Fumitory.) Our species are leafy- 

 stemmed, (i) or (2), wild in rocky places, fl. spring and summer. 



C. glatica. Pale Corydalis. Common, 6' -3° high, very glaucous, with 

 the whitish flowers variegated with yellow and pink, a short and rounded spur, 

 and erect pods. 



C. flivula. Yellowish C. From Penn. S. & W. : has the flowers pale 

 yellow, with the tips of the outer petals wing-crested ; seeds sharp-edged : other- 

 wise like the next. 



C. aiirea, Golden C. From Vermont W. & S. Low and spreading; 

 flowers golden-yellow with a longish spur, and crestless tips, hanging pods, and 

 smooth blunt-edged seeds. 



4. FUM ARIA, FUMITORY. (Name from /umus, smoke.) ® Low, 

 leafy-stemmed, with finely cut compound leaves. 



P. officinalis, Common F. Common in old gardens, waste places, and 

 dung-heaps ; a delicate small weed, with a close spike of sm^l pinkish crimson- 

 tipped flowers, in summer. 



